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The company is planning a 30,000-square-foot hangafr facility with an adjacent 7,000-square-foot flex officde building. Professional sports teams, entertaineras and other travelers taking chartered flights usethe facility. "The current hangar is full beyonddits capacity," said Atlantic Aviation generapl manager John Carlen. "If everybody's home, I have to leave somebodyt outside." The new building would hold between 15 and 18privatse planes, depending on their size, Carlen said. That would complement the existing 20,000-square-foot hangar, whicn has room to store about adozenm planes, as well as a small terminal with a loungr and other features.
In additiobn to storing aircraft inthe hangar, Atlanticd offers a variety of services to planes and including fuel sales and deicing. Construction would start next and the building should be openin March. Atlanticf Aviation, based in Dallas, is owned by , an affiliate of the Australiajconglomerate , which last week announced plans to purchas locally based Bloomfield-based designed the new and O'Hara-based is the contractor. Mike Dolan and Dean Gengse of VoyagerJet Center, basedr at Allegheny County Airporgt in West Mifflin, said Atlantic Aviation's expansiobn at Pittsburgh International is good for the industrgy and the region.
"We believe that the market has been underserved for many Dolan said. "At Greater PIT, therwe are absolutely opportunities to meet the demand that has grown over the last few Voyager Jet Center and Atlantic Aviatiom are sometimes partners andsometimes rivals, workinbg together on flight services and competing for fixed-base operatioh business. Over the past several years, chartere flight operators have enjoyed aboom nationwide, as airlinexs have scaled back hubs and travelers have facec more hassles getting to theifr destinations. "A full day can elapsse in getting from Point A to Point B because you have to go througjhPoint C," Genge said.
"Byh flying privately, you can make your meeting s and be homefor dinner."